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Protecting the planet

EPA commissions a challenge coin for 2017 disaster responders

Proposed challenge coin

EPA commissions coins for 2017 responders

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt attends a 2018 Hurricane Briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 6, 2018. - US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump also attended the meeting. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt shuns email for external communications

Skeleton Coast - Wreck of the fishing trawler Zeila

Namibia's Skeleton Coast: A journey through the 'end of the Earth'

Namale Resort and Spa, Fiji

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Kokomo Private Island Fiji

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BOONE, IA - JANUARY 4: Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) visits King's Christian Bookstore on January 4, 2016 in Boone, Iowa. Cruz began a six-day bus tour of Iowa ahead of the state's February 1, caucuses. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Senators call on National Science Foundation to investigate climate change grants

This is not your typical summer beach reads list

TOPSHOT - Spain's Mapfre team sails during the in-port race of the Volvo Ocean Race in Itajai, in Brazil on April 20, 2018. - The teams will next embark on leg 8 to Newport, US with MAPFRE team in the lead, AkzoNobel in second place followed by Chinese Dongfeng. (Photo by EDUARDO VALENTE / AFP) (Photo credit should read EDUARDO VALENTE/AFP/Getty Images)

History on the line as Volvo Ocean Race reaches final leg

Tweet by @MarsCuriosity "I'm back! Did you miss me? This selfie is part of a fresh batch of images, direct from #Mars. Check out all my raw images at https://go.nasa.gov/2n5oyKo "

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover

Flash floods strike coastal south Texas, residents urged to seek higher ground

Alcohol is a diuretic, which means it increases the amount of water excreted by the body, so the dehydration it causes is often behind that morning-after feeling. As a result, the best defense against dehydration is to stay hydrated, Murray said.

Try alternating alcoholic drinks with non-alcoholic ones — ideally, water. This has the added benefit of spreading out the amount of alcohol absorbed by your body, since you won't be drinking as intensely. "You slow yourself down, as it were," Murray said.

If you haven't had any water at night's end, don't worry: drinking water before going to sleep will still help the next morning, Murray said, although it may result in a late-night trip to the bathroom.

Long-awaited report on water contaminants released by HHS

A carbonated beer

C02 shortage threatens World Cup beer supply

Hawaii farmers risk lava and toxic air to save their produce after Kilauea volcano

Behrouz Boochani

Refugees held by Australia languish in a world beyond suffering and suicide

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 01: The soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is seen September 1, 2016 in Washingotn, DC. The museum was established by Act of Congress in 2003. It is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. A dedication ceremony will be held to mark the grand opening of the museum on September 24. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Juneteenth: 8 places to honor the end of slavery

Jaffa, Tel Aviv

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Young sailors find perspective high in the Arctic

Famous Conwy Castle in Wales, United Kingdom, series of Walesh castles

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The last hope for elephants: Can a Chinese law help stop the slaughter in Africa?

Can a Chinese law help save African elephants?

Dare to bare: 15 of the world's best nude beaches

Pathway down to the Tunnel Beach which is located at Dunedin,New Zealand

Photos of Dunedin, New Zealand

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Impresionantes rápidos de lava en el volcán Kilauea

MIAMI BEACH, FL - SEPTEMBER 29: A hotel guest steps out of a hotel into a flooded street that was caused by the combination of the lunar orbit which caused seasonal high tides and what many believe is the rising sea levels due to climate change on September 29, 2015 in Miami Beach, Florida. The City of Miami Beach is in the middle of a five-year, $400 million storm water pump program and other projects that city officials hope will keep the ocean waters from inundating the city as the oceans rise even more in the future. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Millions of US homes at risk of chronic flooding this century, new study says

Johannes wraps one of the foresails.

The Linden's voyage to Svalbard

Japan protests South Korean military drills near contested islands

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The revitalization of Atlanta's Midtown

GINOWAN, Japan - A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft lands at the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 2, 2012, as three more Ospreys flew to the Futenma base for deployment from another base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Six Ospreys had arrived at Futenma from Iwakuni the previous day. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

Beaches, bases, battles: The seven-decade fight for Okinawa

Kilauea volcano destroys 467 Hawaiian homes, officials say

Reagan's EPA chief was forced to resign amid scandals. Why not Scott Pruitt?

Daytona Beach firefighters work to rescue two riders that are in a dangling roller coaster car.

Florida agency probing roller coaster derailment in Daytona Beach

EAST CHICAGO, IN - APRIL 19: U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt makes a statement to the media after meeting residents from and taking a brief tour of the West Calumet Housing Complex on April 19, 2017 in East Chicago, Indiana. Nearly all the residents of the complex were ordered to move by the East Chicago Housing Authority after the soil and many homes in the complex were found to contain high levels of lead. The area has been declared an EPA superfund site. This was Pruitt's first visit to a superfund site since being named the agency's administrator. The complex is scheduled for demolition. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Ethics watchdog wants EPA IG to expand Pruitt investigations

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 18: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Capitol Hill January 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. Pruitt is expected to face tough questioning about his stance on climate change and ties to the oil and gas industry. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Why Scott Pruitt may be getting a pass

title: Kīlauea Volcano — Fissure 8 Flow: From Vent to Sea duration: 00:01:55 site: Youtube author: null published: Thu Jun 14 2018 19:22:30 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) intervention: no description: A helicopter overflight video of the lower East Rift Zone on June 14, 2018, around 6:00 AM, shows lava fountaining at fissure 8 feeding channelized lava flows that flow into the ocean. Lava is still flowing out of fissure 8 unabated and the channel is full. At the start of the video, standing waves in the lava channel can be seen near the vent exit. The channel appears crust-free from vent to the bend around Kapoho Crater. A surface crust forms over the channel as it spreads out during its approach to the ocean. The overflight along the ocea

#LaImagenDelDía: impresionante río de lava deja el volcán Kilauea

MOROVIS, PUERTO RICO - DECEMBER 20: A resident, whose home remains without electricity, watches as debris is removed on December 20, 2017 in Morovis, Puerto Rico. Barely three months after Hurricane Maria made landfall, approximately one-third of the devastated island is still without electricity and 14 percent lack running water. While the official death toll from the massive storm remains at 64, The New York Times recently reported the actual toll for the storm and its aftermath likely stands at more than 1,000. Puerto Rico's governor has ordered a review and recount as the holiday season approaches. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

What 2 CNN reporters want you to know about Puerto Rico

In this photograph taken on 29 May, 2018, Indian women return after fetching water from a pit dug in the bed of Lokpal Sagar lake, near Manas Nagar village in Panna district, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. - The region is experiencing a severe drought due to a shortage of rainfall in recent years. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

India facing its worst water shortage in history, report says

'It's in blood, the nature and the culture.' Iceland's hard World Cup work pays off

South stack lighthouse on Holy Island at sunset

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Trump's new world order

Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), named after the sun-like spot on its chest. The smallest bear but still potentially dangerous. Range is tropical rainforest from Burma to Sumatra with smaller subspecies in Borneo. Southeast Asia. (Photo by Auscape/UIG via Getty Images)

To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift

This picture taken on May 31, 2018 shows a dog barking while standing between houses covered with overgrown vegetation in Houtouwan on Shengshan island, China's eastern Zhejiang province. - Houtouwan was a thriving fishing community of sturdy brick homes that climb up the steeply hilled island of Shenghshan, but is now abandoned, with entire houses completely overgrown as if vacuum-sealed in a lush layer of green. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

China's forgotten village swallowed by nature

EAST CHICAGO, IN - APRIL 19: U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt makes a statement to the media after meeting residents from and taking a brief tour of the West Calumet Housing Complex on April 19, 2017 in East Chicago, Indiana. Nearly all the residents of the complex were ordered to move by the East Chicago Housing Authority after the soil and many homes in the complex were found to contain high levels of lead. The area has been declared an EPA superfund site. This was Pruitt's first visit to a superfund site since being named the agency's administrator. The complex is scheduled for demolition. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Conservatives turn on embattled EPA chief

Girl taking a test in school.

IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds

07 jose andres feeding guatemala

José Andrés is at it again! He's feeding thousands in Guatemala after the volcano eruption

This is so much better than Cancún

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Upgrading Uganda's poor road networks

Study shows melting of Antarctica is speeding up